BRIAN (fiercely).  My creed includes both marriage and monogamy, and monogamy means sticking to the woman you love, as long as she wants you.

LADY MARDEN (calmly).  You suggest that George and Olivia should go on living together, although they have never been legally married, and wait for this Telworthy man to divorce her, and then—­bless the man, what do you think the County would say?

BRIAN (scornfully).  Does it matter?

DINAH.  Well, if you really want to know, the men would say, “Gad, she’s a fine woman; I don’t wonder he sticks to her,” and the women would say, “I can’t think what he sees in her to stick to her like that,” and they’d both say, “After all, he may be a damn fool, but you can’t deny he’s a sportsman.”  That’s what the County would say.

GEORGE (indignantly) Was it for this sort of thing, Olivia, that you insisted on having Dinah and Mr. Strange in here?  To insult me in my own house?

LADY MARDEN.  I can’t think what young people are coming to nowadays.

OLIVIA.  I think, dear, you and Brian had better go.

DINAH (getting up).  We will go.  But I’m just going to say one thing, Uncle George.  Brian and I are going to marry each other, and when we are married we’ll stick to each other, however many of our dead husbands and wives turn up!

    [She goes out indignantly, followed by BRIAN.

GEORGE.  Upon my word, this is a pleasant discussion.

OLIVIA.  I think the discussion is over, George.  It is only a question of where I shall go, while you are bringing your—­what sort of suit did you call it?

LADY MARDEN (to GEORGE).  Nullity suit.  I suppose that is the best thing?

GEORGE.  It’s horrible.  The awful publicity.  That it should be happening to us, that’s what I can’t get over.

LADY MARDEN.  I don’t remember anything of the sort in the Marden Family before, ever.

GEORGE (absently).  Lady Fanny.

LADY MARDEN (recollecting).  Yes, of course; but that was two hundred years ago.  The standards were different then.  Besides, it wasn’t quite the same, anyhow.

GEORGE (absently).  No, it wasn’t quite the same.

LADY MARDEN.  No.  We shall all feel it.  Terribly.

GEORGE (his apology).  If there were any other way!  Olivia, what can I do?  It is the only way, isn’t it?  All that that fellow said—­of course, it sounds very well—­but as things are. . . . Is there anything in marriage, or isn’t there?  You believe that there is, don’t you?  You aren’t one of these Socialists.  Well, then, can we go on living together when you’re another man’s wife?  It isn’t only what people will say, but it is wrong, isn’t it? . . .  And supposing he doesn’t divorce you, are we to go on living together, unmarried, for ever?  Olivia, you seem to think that I’m just thinking of the